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Show BAMBOO CULTURE IN UNITED STATES , WASHINGTON. March K. There la d!i'Jtry0r home-grown flKh pole In- The zeal of government agriculture aharpa la in a fair way to overcome difficulties In the way of bamboo culture cul-ture in the Tnlted Htatca. rnrtls-tnayed rnrtls-tnayed by past failures, they have ousted oust-ed with hot water, dlaeases in shoot b brought from China and Japan and are preparing to atart a bamboo grove at Havannah. (la. Makers of not, only flKh polea. but barrel hoops. Canes. k phonograph needles, furniture and many other things not Including the .dope" pipes whence flowed the "bam-, "bam-, boo dreams" of opium emokera In I other days, are expected to get their raw material at home ultimately I Propagation in the Vnitcd Statea of bamboo shoots waa first attempted ten or twelve yeara ago at Oiiro. t'al.. and Urookavllle. Kla. The plants developed n 'mite" which sapped their vitality, however, and It waa not until experts discovered the hot water cure that hopes of growing bamboo for th mar- Uft were bright. |